Micheal Jackson's Most Culturally Healthy Video - RIP

Michael Jackson's memorial service concluded this week. How well did you know his body of work? What was MJ's most Culturally Healthy song? (Video)

So what do you think, was it Thriller, Remember the Time, Billie Jean or some other work?




I was doing a series of articles entitled Egyptians/AA Yesterday and Today, when out of the blue, I remembered the time Micheal Jackson did his most Culturally Healthy Video. Did you remember the time when Mr. Jackson took a big risk and brought an ethically accurate Classical African Civilization, Kemet (ancient Egypt) back to the world stage.

Most Americans remember Hollywood's culturally poisoned representations of ancient north Africa from movies like Cleopatra and The Ten commandments with Yul Brynner playing an African King Ra Moses II (Ramesses II).

Richard Pryor who had a Cultural Rebirth after his trip to Africa, made a short Cultural Literacy piece for his TV Show that is known by relatively few Americans and citizens of the world Egypt 1909, it is a most remarkable piece for its time. Eddie Murphy also did a Culturally Healthy movie, Coming to America which, did not have Kemet as its focus as in the case of Mr. Jackson and Mr. Pryor. However, it did have a positive cultural impact worldwide.

Now I may be in error, but as best I can remember Mr. Jackson was the first major entertainer to successfully produce a major work regarding the historicity of Classical African Civilization (CAC) designed to improve Cultural Literacy in the world's mass market .

Mr. Jackson is known to be a curious person, always asking questions. I wonder what is the back story regarding Mr. Jackson's Cultural Literacy regarding CAC. Did he consult with African Scholars on the video. How did this all come about.

How was your Cultural Literacy. How well did you know Mr. Jackson's work?

Did you get the answer right? (No cheating, before you read the article)


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We know that the Classical Africans in their majority were Black because they said so and because the science, melanin dosage tests, confirm it. However, is it not remarkable that all we need is to observer the natural cultural performance of our youth from graffiti to hip hop and some basic Cultural Literacy to make our own confirmation.

When I was young in New York City, I remember when African American youth started writing/drawing on walls. It was a new remarkable somewhat cryptic artistic formation on walls that was hard to get off. Everyone in the community connected but the uninitiated did not have a clue. At the time I made no Legacy links to Classical African Civilization, Kemet (Ancient Egypt).

Legacy Links that come to us in our ancestral memory and can be seen automatically transmitted to our children. And so today we see them like their ancestors wrote in stone so that there words would last forever, writing in cyberspace (blogging) so that their young words will last forever.

Speaking of blogging and social nets like myspace, and facebook and twitter. Do a twitter search on #bwb (Blogging While Black). From graffiti to twitti we are remarkable beings, that are so connected when we take the time to be quiet and listen to the timeless vibrations around us.

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It is interesting to make the visual link between the people of Classical African Civilization and their descendants today that can be found in America.

We know that the Classical Africans in their majority were Black because they said so and because the science, melanin dosage tests, confirm it. However, is it not remarkable that all we need are our eyes and some basic Cultural Literacy to make our own confirmation.

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The Meaning of the 4th of July for the African American

Every American, especially African Americans, should know the July 5, 1852 Frederick Dougless speech, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro". From a Cultural Health perspective it is a basic American Cultural Literacy requirement. (Video)

...Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?




I grew up in the Queens, of New York City that Eddie Murphy made famous. I could walk out my front door and see Manhattan. Today I have to drive somewhere to see the fireworks like I did yesterday with my youngest son and his girl friend. But back then everyone where I lived just came outside and looked up, over to the city, to see the 4th of July fire works.

Fire works are pretty, romantic and fun for many. What is not to like about America's birth day? As I grew in Cultural Literacy, I finally heard the famous word's of Mr. Dougless and for the first time I said to myself. Self, the 4th of July was not "Independence" Day for all Americans. This was a shock to my system, as this reality for AA was not thought in school. Like most African Americans, I learned over the years to roll with the cultural punches on the Red, White and barbecue day.

After watching the Williams Wimbledon final and playing some tennis on the local courts (with a guy who brought his own personal portable, on wheels, automatic tennis ball machine to practice with) I went to the traditional family barbecue. We talked about current events, New American Health Care, Micheal Jackson, and what do you mean Palin quit?

Yes, the 4th of 2009 is different from the 4th of 1852. An AA President and a guy with his own personal tennis robot underline that reality. I think AA's are prouder of the Nation on this 4th, more so then any in my memory. However, we must not forget the reality and contributions of our ancestors and the Cultural Health work that remains.

You will note I have made a Cultural Health correction to the title of the Speech. Here is a link to the full text of the speech. It is interesting to hear, but more powerful to read personally.

Here is the most famous passage of the 1852 speech and maybe the most famous of all of our ancestor Douglass' speeches.

...What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour...

Williams Sisters Take Wimbledon by Storm

Serena wins the 2009 final and they both win the doubles championship (Video)


Here is what Serena had to say about her win


Everyone I know watched the show, (simi's and final)what a way to go. It demonstrates to us elders, what you can accomplish when you get in the gym and stay focused.

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Micheal Jackson Thanks for Helping My Son

My youngest son has cerebral palsy and your music and entertainment genius gave him countless hours of joy and great dancing fun. His mother and I thank you for activating the sound in our son's spirit.

Michael Jackson via last.fm

I was talking to the Queen mother of our family the other day on the passing of Micheal Jackson and she told me something I had not heard from her before. She reminisced about how our son use to love to dance to Micheal's music and how he new all the words. For a minute, we could both see him in our minds eye, in those eyes that only parents have.

She told me she had always wanted to send Micheal Jackson a letter thanking him. So today, as we offer our condolences to your family in this time of transition, I am saying thank you for both of us

Our son has grown to be a fine young man and a technical wiz. This is what my son wrote on his new cyber-magazine this week.

I was very sad to hear about Michael Jackson's death I grew up with his music I'm currently 31 years old and despite my disability I did my best as a young child to imitate his dance moves when I was dancing to his music whether it was in my wheelchair or on my knees his music helped me forget about my disability for that time.

My mother gave me the middle name Micheal which, my youngest sun carries. As you may know, it is from the christian archangel Michael. This cosmological archetype comes down to us from classical African Civilization, Kemet (Ancient Egypt) as the Neter Huru. Heru is the source of the universal archetypal concept that we understand in the West as a Hero. You have certainly been a transnational, trans-ethnic musical hero to many.

You may know about these prisoners but I and most of my readers did not.

Michael Jackson “Thriller” by Philippines’s Prisoners


The reach of your positive cultural energy through your entertainment genius is remarkably transcendent, King of pop. Here we have Prisoners at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines, activating and energizing a core values of the African and Asian worldview, collectivism. This is the most massive and remarkable jail exercise routines I have ever seen. Wow! Talk about different roads to psychological and cosmological freedom.

As an ancestor we know you will receive all your messages, it is not like E-Mail down here on the earthly plane, so thank you for taking a microsecond to absorb our family thank you.

P.S. If you are feeling Mr. Jackson's spirit during this transition, I highly recommend you watch the videos in the three stories below especially, the last one which, tells you a lot about this spirit's impact on our planet.

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Black Judge Says Black Voting is Unconstitutional

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The United States Supreme Court on Monday in effect upheld the Voting Rights Act that was enacted to enable African Americans to actually vote in Southern America. The lone Republican African American dissenter Clarence Thomas said, in effect, Black Voting is unconstitutional.

There was speculation in the African American community that the extremist right wing Republican stacked Supreme Court would strike down the Voting Rights Act and its protection against Southern racists interfering with an African Americans right to vote.

This is the Court that stood by while Bush and their forty thieves prevented three million African American and Latino American voters from voting and appointed Bush to the White House. Obviously, the history of this court was not encouraging to my community.

The court deserves credit for their relatively positive 8-1 vote not to attack the Act. But what about that one vote?

In case you don't know Judge Thomas, he is that cruel joke that the Republican President Regan played on America's EEOC and the Supreme Court. He is a Cultural Traitor of the highest order, from his infamous dealing with African American (AA)job protection during his time at the Equal Employment Opportunity commission (EEOC), to his behavior with AA woman (Anita Hill) and now his disgraceful track record on the Nation's highest court.

This is just one more nail in the cultural coffin of Mr. Thomas.

The good news is, that almost every AA alive today would know this enemy of our community on sight. He is unwelcome anywhere Culturally Healthy people I know of in the community gather. The bad news is, that he is appointed for life and his Cultural Poisoning dis-ease will probably be with him for life.

P.S. Does anyone have the antidote for this AA?

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The President Pitches to the American Murder Association (AMA)

The American "Medical" Association has been against "health" care for all for decades. So it was amazing to me that the President should choose this Republican stronghold to lay out his New American "health" care plan including costs. (Video)





Some may think my calling the American Medical Association the American Murder Association is over done. IMHO, that name is more repetitiveness of their performance toward me the patient, so I coined it. Here is an example of what I am talking about. Dr. Linda Peeno while working for one of medical industrial complex which the AMA is part of caused the death of a patient (her words)and no one has done anything including the AMA to stop the patient killings by MediPlex.

You don't even want to get me started on the Sick Care provided by AMA doctors vs. the Health Care that we really need. Do you know American medical history? Did you know that the Allopaths used the law to killed off the homeopaths to the determent of the American patient's health.

In Closing, there is a Cultural Literacy test for you in the video. There is something African in this picture, can you find it? No,President Obama is not the answer, look closely.

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Have a Happy and Culturally Healthy Fathers Day

On this father's day we must remember Neda of Iran and her father and mother. Bless them and send them loving energy.




The spin no longer works in America, in South America or Iran. We are standing here in CyberSpace and the truth can not be buried. The people are standing up. Bush and the Taliban Republicans of the 2000 election and extreme right wing everywhere have taught the world a lesson.

So today I am reflecting on what it means to be a culturally literate father? I am also thinking of Neda of Iran and what it would mean if I lost my daughter to a Bush or an Ayatollah Humani.

A fellow columnist on Newsvine synthesis pointed me to the Neda story and like him I can not bring myself to link to the video. If you are a father and your children are still on this plane you are lucky indeed, it is not so for all.

Religion has a Roll in Cultural Health (Video)

Many new Korean churches have opened up in my neighborhood. I always wondered what their services were like. Take a peek - My Desire is to Worship God - Heritage Mass Choir, Afro-American Style Gospel in Korea




Cultural Health can show up where you least expect it. I think these young Korean brothers and sisters have got it down. It feels like the creator is singing through her creation.